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Business of the House

May I press my right hon. Friend on the suggestion that a free vote be held on the extent of the restrictions on smoking when the issue is debated next year? He will recall that our right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, at annual conference, said that whenever he introduced a reform he always thought in retrospect that he had not gone far enough. We are in danger of introducing a measure that makes no one happy. I put it to him that the way round that is to allow a free vote on the extent to which the restrictions should apply.